The Awards' applications follow a two-stage evaluation to ensure that the best impact projects and organizations get recognized for their efforts.

• Stage I: Evaluation by the Partner Institutions

For the first stage of assessment of the award applications, we have an expert panel consisting of academia and research leaders who would be evaluating the applications based on their knowledge and expertise in line with pre-defined parameters. The list of our Stage I Evaluation Partners is available on the India CSR Summit website.

Each partner institution will evaluate 2 to 3 categories of the awards based on their core expertise.
Evaluation partners: IIM Lucknow, XISS Ranchi, IIFM Bhopal, Jagran lake city, Information of Department of Social Work, Delhi University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

Note: Each applicant will have to present their Award application to the Stage 1 Jury Panel virtually. The applicants will be informed about their slots (date and time) at least 3-5 days in advance. The presentation will be in virtual mode.


• Stage II: The Grand Jury

After careful evaluation of applications in Stage I by the institution partners, a Grand Jury round is organized as Stage II assessment where 4 shortlisted applications from each of the categories will be presented to the Grand Jury. The expert panel of the jury will select the best projects and declare the winner under each category.

Note: Each shortlisted applicant will have to present their Award application to the Stage 2 Jury Panel virtually. The applicants will be informed about their slots (date and time) at least 3-5 days in advance. These presentations will also be in virtual mode.

The Grand Jury Members
• The grand jury will comprise 15-25 domain experts from different thematic areas. In the last 5 years, we had members from The World Bank, BOSCH India, Birla Institute of Management and Technology, United Way India, UNDP, UNICEF, World Health Organization, etc.
• The names of the Jury-members for 2023 will be announced on the event website by 30th August 2023